Summer 2015 - Overlook Press

“Vincenzi is poised to fill the gap in the American realm of Cinderella fiction.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
A PERFECT HERITAGE
A Novel
PENNY VINCENZI
“The doyenne of the modern blockbuster”
(Glamour) returns with her signature writing style
and eye for strong characters in A Perfect Heritage.
The House of Farrell is a prolific skincare company and home of The Cream, an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to its flagship
London store since 1953. At Farrell, you can rely
on the personal touch that has been their trademark for generations. The legendary Athina Farrell remains the company’s figurehead and in her
kingdom at the Berkeley Arcade, while Florence
Hamilton plies their cosmetics with the utmost
care and discretion. She is sales advisor—and holder of secrets—extraordinaire.
Praise for Penny Vincenzi:
“Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial
women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today
“Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn
characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things
humming.”—People
“Will draw you in against your better judgment and
keep you awake reading all night.”
—The Boston Globe
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But of course the world of cosmetics is changing and the once glorious House of Farrell is now
in decline, its customers tempted away by more
fashionable brands. With no idea how to right the
ship, Athina hires Bianca Bailey, a formidable businesswoman, mother of three, and someone who
always gets her way. Athina and Bianca lock horns
over the future of the House of Farrell but it is the
past that tells its devastating tale of ambition and
ego, passion and wonder.
A perfect summer read, this is Penny Vincenzi
at her finest.
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•T
he return of one of Overlook’s bestselling
authors, whose books have sold hundreds of
thousands of copies worldwide
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bestselling author of No Angel
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PENNY VINCENZI has written fourteen bestselling novels,
including the bestselling No Angel. Before becoming a
novelist, she worked at such magazines as Vogue, Tatler,
and Cosmopolitan.
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MAY
The unabashedly funny and forthright
memoir by the Tony Award winner for
Grey Gardens
MY FIRST HUNDRED
YEARS IN SHOW
BUSINESS
A Memoir
MARY LOUISE WILSON
MY FIRST HUNDRED YEARS
IN SHOW BUSINESS
A MEMOIR
MARy LOuIsE WILsOn
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•A
documentary about Mary
Louise Wilson, She’s the
Best Thing in It, directed by
Oscar winner Ron Nyswaner
(Philadelphia), will be
released in 2015
•F
ilm and television
appearances include
Nebraska, Nurse Jackie,
Louie, and many more
•M
ary Louise Wilson will be
on Broadway in 2015 in
On the Twentieth Century,
with Kristin Chenoweth
MARY LOUISE WILSON has
acted on and off Broadway
and in films and TV for nearly
fifty years. Roles include Vera
Joseph in 4000 Miles at Lincoln
Center (Obie Award), Big Edie
in Grey Gardens (Tony Award),
Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret
(Tony nomination), and Diana
Vreeland in Full Gallop (Drama
Desk Award). Her writing has
appeared in the New Yorker and
The New York Times and she
teaches acting at Tulane. She
lives in upstate New York.
Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age
sixty with her smash one-woman play Full
Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor
Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her
life and her career—including the Tony
Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey
Gardens—have been enviably celebrated
and varied.
Raised in New Orleans with a social
climbing, alcoholic mother, Mary Louise
moved to New York City in the late 1950s;
lived with her gay brother in the Village;
entered the nightclub scene in a legendary
review; and rubbed shoulders with every
famous person of that era and since. My
First Hundred Years in Show Business gets it
all down. Yet as delicious as the anecdotes
are, the heart of this book is in its unblinkingly honest depiction of the life of
a working actor. In her inimitable voice—
wry, admirably unsentimental, mordantly
funny—Mary Louise Wilson has crafted a
work that is at once a teeming social history of the New York theatre scene and a
thoroughly revealing, superbly entertaining memoir of the life of an extraordinary
woman and actor.
MAY
Published for the 200th anniversary of the
battle, the groundbreaking new account of
the last days of the Napoleonic Wars
WATERLOO
The Aftermath
PAUL O’KEEFFE
In the early morning hours of June 19,
1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000
horses lay dead and wounded on a battlefield just south of Brussels. In the hours,
days, weeks and months that followed,
news of the battle would begin to shape
the consciousness of an age; the battlegrounds would be looted and cleared, its
dead buried or burned, its ground and ruins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the victorious British and Prussian armies would
invade France and occupy Paris. And as his
enemies within and without France closed
in, Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but
surrender, exile and captivity.
In this dramatic account of the aftermath
of the battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe
employs a multiplicity of contemporary
sources and viewpoints to create a reading
experience that brings into focus as never
before the sights, sounds, and smells of
the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of
celebration and riot.
Praise for Waterloo:
“I was gripped by the wealth
of detail and humanity in
the book. . . . This is how
the tales of battles should
be told, whatever the time,
place or outcome.”
—Emily Mayhew, author of
Wounded
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PAUL O’KEEFFE is a lecturer and
writer. He was awarded a PhD by
the University of Liverpool. He
is the author of several highly
acclaimed books, including
biographies of Wyndham Lewis,
the artist Benjamin Robert
Hayden, and the sculptor
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
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“There’s no better way to explain the miracle of Israel than to examine the
amazing life of Stef Wertheimer.” —Warren Buffett
THE HABIT OF LABOR
Lessons from a Life of Struggle and Success in the State of Israel
STEF WERTHEIMER
Forced to flee Nazi Germany with his family at
age 10, Stef Wertheimer came to British Palestine
in the late 1930s. He promptly dropped out of
school, learned a trade through apprenticeship, and
played a meaningful role in Israel’s War of Independence. He also started a company—ISCAR—that
began in a shed and ultimately made him one of
the world’s great self-made industrialists.
In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares
the lessons he learned from a life of strife and
struggle in one of the world’s newest industrial powers. Both a pragmatist and a visionary, Wertheimer has devoted much of his life
to promoting Jewish and Arab economic development through innovative educational and
vocational programs, along with the establishment
of a series of thriving industrial parks in Israel and
in Turkey. The future of Israel, he believes, is not
in military might or diplomatic alliances but in its
growing economic clout.
From The Habit of Labor:
I did not go inside. I did not speak with anyone.
Later, in 1963, when I lived for over a year with my
family in Holland, where I started the first Israeli
factory overseas, we would sometimes travel for a ski
weekend in Switzerland and pass by Kippenheim.
My wife Miriam did not understand my aversion for
the place. . . . I would enter Kippenheim by myself,
now a place devoid of Jews. Those who did not leave
in time died in the camps. Only in the local Jewish
cemetery, in Schmieheim, can you find many familiar
names. . . . The gravestones attest to generations of
Jews—physicians, merchants, intellectuals—who
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were part of the soul and heartbeat of the region
for centuries, until one day their neighbors sought
to erase them. A tombstone erected in memory of
the Jews who fell fighting in World War I calls out in
Hebrew letters: “Peace, peace to the near and far.”
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STEF WERTHEIMER is a German-born Israeli businessman,
philanthropist and former politician. In 1952, he
founded the company ISCAR and eventually grew it into a
multinational, multibillion-dollar corporation, later selling
his stake to billionaire investor Warren Buffett in 2006.
A former Member of the Knesset, he has taken an active
role in Israeli policy. He lives in Jerusalem.
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JUNE
The stunning mystery from “the perfect
author to read late into the night”
(Clive Cussler)
GHOSTHEART
A Novel
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R. J. ELLORY
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Also available from R. J. Ellory:
Saints of New York
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A Quiet Belief in Angels
978-1-59020-338-5 $14.95
The Anniversary Man
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A Simple Act of Violence
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eleven novels, including the
bestselling A Quiet Belief in
Angels, which was the Strand
magazine’s Thriller of the Year,
shortlisted for the Barry Award,
and a finalist for the SIBA
Award. He is also the author of
Three Days in Chicago Land,
Candlemoth, A Quiet Vendetta,
The Anniversary Man, and A
Simple Act of Violence.
Annie O'Neill has it all: a cozy Manhattan
apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a
network of supportive friends. But at the
heart of her life is a hole—a place vacated
by her father when he died in her childhood. So when a mysterious man named
Forrester enters the shop and claims to be
her father's oldest friend she jumps at the
chance to find out more of her own past.
But Forrester's not being free with the answers she needs. He's much more interested in telling her a story about a ruthless
ganglord and a fifty-year-old betrayal. A
betrayal that she will realize far too slowly,
has something very much to do with her.
Praised by Alan Furst as "a uniquely
gifted, passionate, and powerful writer,
R. J. Ellory returns with another expertly
crafted thriller.
JUNE
The
dog who
saved
my life
An inspiring true story of a canine friendship
that led one man from life on the street to
artistic success
JOHN & GEORGE
The Dog Who Saved My Life
JOHN DOLAN
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For years, John Dolan had been living
rough, trying his best to get by. Born and
bred on the estates of east London, his
early life was marked by neglect and abuse,
and his childhood gift for drawing was
stamped out by the tough realities outside his front door. As he grew older, he
turned to petty crime to support himself
and ended up in prison. On coming out,
he soon found himself on the streets, surviving day-by-day, living hand-to-mouth.
It wasn’t until he met George, a homeless Staffy puppy, that his life changed
for the better. To begin with, George was
a handful: he had been abused himself
and was scared of human contact. Soon,
John and George became inseparable. It
was then that John decided to pick up his
long-forgotten gift for drawing, sitting on
the sidewalk for hours at a time, sketching pictures of George that he would sell to
passers-by. With his best friend by his side,
and a pencil in his hand, John suddenly
found his life’s calling.
• For fans of Marley and Me
• An inspiring story of
companionship and
redemption
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JOHN DOLAN is a criticallyacclaimed artist living and
working in Shoreditch, east
London. For the past three
years he and his dog George
have sat out on Shoreditch High
Street, while John sketched the
world around him. Some of his
sketches formed part of John’s
first solo show, George the Dog,
John the Artist, which was a sell
out in September 2013.
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A veteran soldier defends the receding borders of the Roman Empire in the first
installment to a thrilling new series
THE WAR AT THE EDGE OF
THE WORLD
Twilight of Empire, Book One
IAN JAMES ROSS
The epic first installment in a new series set at the
end of empire in the reign of the Emperor Constantine, The War at the Edge of the World follows
newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus into
the tumultuous battle for the future of Rome.
Once a soldier in an elite legion from the
Danube, now stuck in Britain's provincial backwater, Castus believes his glory days are over. But fate
is about to intervene. When the king of the Picts,
the savage people beyond Hadrian’s Wall, dies in
mysterious circumstances, Castus is selected to
command the bodyguard of a Roman envoy sent
to negotiate with the barbarians.
But the diplomatic mission ends in bloody
tragedy. Castus and his men are soon fighting for
their lives and the legionary discovers that nothing
about his doomed mission was ever what it seemed.
From The War at the Edge of the World:
The army assembled before dawn. All night the
legionaries had marched through dry ravines and
rocky slopes, stumbling in dusty darkness with
muffled weapons, forbidden to make a sound as they
flanked the enemy position. Now, as the first rays of
sun lit the snows of the high mountain ranges, they
saw the royal encampment of the King of Persia in
the brown valley below them, with their enemies
spilling from the gates in confusion. Already in their
hearts was the promise of a battle won.
Twenty-five thousand men formed a battle line over
a mile long. Massed squadrons of cavalry held the
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higher ground at the flanks: mailed Sarmatian
lancers, Dalmatian light horsemen, mounted
archers from Armenia and Osrhoene. Between them
stood five thousand allied Gothic tribesmen in full
barbaric array, fierce warriors from beyond the
empire’s northern boundaries. But at the center of
the line were ten thousand armored infantrymen
drawn from the crack legions of the Danube frontier.
As the sun rose, the light gleamed off helmets of
burnished iron and bronze, hauberks of mail and
scale, the bristling tips of spears and javelins and
the serried lines of oval shields.
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IAN JAMES ROSS has been researching and writing about
the later Roman world and its army for over a decade. He
spent a year in Italy teaching English, but now lives in
Bath, England.
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Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the
unputdownable More Fool Me
MORE FOOL ME
A Memoir
STEPHEN FRY
By his early thirties, Stephen Fry—writer, comedian, star of stage and screen—had, as they say,
“made it.” Much loved on British television, author
of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel,
with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he
had more work than was perhaps good for him.
As the ’80s drew to a close, he began to burn
the candle at both ends. Writing and recording by
day, and haunting a neverending series of celebrity
parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night,
he was a high functioning addict. He was so busy,
so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly
see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow . . .
Filled with raw, electric extracts from his diaries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to
entertain—revealing a side to him he has long kept
hidden.
Praise for Stephen Fry:
“This is, above all else, a thoughtful book. And
namedroppy too, and funny . . . Its camaraderie
of tone lets it wear its learning lightly yet leaves
you with . . . new insights, new ways of looking at
things.” —The Guardian
“Funny, poignant . . . His prose feels like an ideal
form of conversation.” —The Washington Post
“Delightful . . . To read this book is to fall in love
(perhaps not for the first time) with its subjects
. . . Strongly recommended.” —National Review
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“Fry begins with an unnecessary apology for the
ordinariness of his writing, and then proceeds
to write masterfully, assessing himself with his
signature blend of self-loathing and baffled
amusement . . . The memoir stands as proof of the
author's intelligence, wit, and insight.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“The Fry Chronicles is so slickly charming it seems
churlish to harrumph.” —The Wall Street Journal
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STEPHEN FRY is an award-winning comedian, actor,
presenter, and director. He is also the bestselling author
of four novels—The Stars’ Tennis Balls, Making History,
The Hippopotamus, and The Liar—as well as two previous
memoirs—Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles.
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JULY
By the international bestselling author
Simon Scarrow, the heart-pounding newest
installment in the Roman Legion series
BROTHERS IN BLOOD
A Roman Legion Novel
SIMON SCARROW
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SIMON SCARROW is the
bestselling author of the Roman
Legion series. Hie was educated
at the University of East Anglia
and lectured in history before
becoming a full-time writer. He
is the author of Centurion, The
Gladiator, and The Zealot all
available from Overlook.
A messenger on the streets of Rome has
been intercepted and tortured, revealing a plot to sabotage the Roman army's
campaign against Caratacus, commander
of Britannia's native tribes. A treacherous
agent's mission is to open a second front
of attack against them and eliminate the
two Roman soldiers who could stand in
the way.
Unwarned, Cato and Macro are with
the Roman army pursuing Caratacus
and his men through the mountains of
Britannia. Defeating Caratacus finally
seems within their grasp. But the plot
against the two heroes threatens not only
their military goals but also their lives.
A master of his craft, Simon Scarrow is
fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon.
Brothers in Blood features the vivid historical detail and gripping battles his fans have
come to expect, but the stakes are higher
than ever for Cato and Macro.
K iofntheg s
grail
Discovering the True location of the
Cup of Christ in Modern-Day spain
JULY
The explosive new book that reveals the true
location of the Holy Grail—hidden in plain
sight for centuries
KINGS OF THE GRAIL
Discovering the True Location of the Cup of Christ in
Modern-Day Spain
MARGARITA TORRES
SEVILLA AND JOSÉ MIGUEL
ORTEGA DEL RÍO
Translated from Spanish by Rosie Marteau
MargariTa Torres sevilla
and JosÉ Miguel orTega Del rio
OverlOOk
Recently discovered parchments in the
Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have finally made it possible to identify the location where the Holy Grail has been kept
for the last 1,000 years. Their discovery led
Margarita Torres Sevilla and José Miguel
Ortega del Río on a three-year investigation as they traced the Grail’s journey
across the globe and discovered its final
resting place in the Basilica of San Isidoro
in León, Spain.
Translated by Rosie Marteau, this
is the definitive guide to one of history’s
most sought-after treasures, the origin
and object of both Arthurian myth and
Christian legend, offering meticulously
researched information to support an extraordinary discovery. Kings of the Grail
presents the new, definitive historical and
scientific facts that have come to light, unravelling the mystery that has surrounded
the Holy Grail and taking the reader on
a compelling and thought-provoking
journey back through time.
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MARGARITA TORRES SEVILLA is
Professor of Medieval History
at the University of León and
Visiting Scholar at St John’s
College, Cambridge. JOSÉ
MIGUEL ORTEGA DEL RÍO has
a PhD in Art History at the
University of Valladolid and
a Masters in Museology from
the Complutense University of
Madrid. ROSIE MARTEAU read
Modern & Medieval Languages
at Cambridge University and
translates Spanish and French.
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AUGUST
Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize,
the captivating and haunting exploration of
the remnants of an empire
UNDER ANOTHER SKY
Journeys in Roman Britain
CHARLOTTE HIGGINS
Praise for Under Another Sky:
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“Beautifully crafted. The
beauty of this book is not just
in the elegant prose . . . It
is in the sympathy that she
shows for the myth-makers.”
—Peter Stothard, The Times
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hortlisted for the Samuel
Johnson Prize and the HessellTiltman Prize, two of the most
prestigious nonfiction book
prizes in the UK
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CHARLOTTE HIGGINS studied
Classics at Balliol College,
Oxford. She is the chief arts
writer for The Guardian.
What does Roman Britain mean to us
now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has
it been reimagined, in story and song
and verse?
Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a
magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW
camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to
explore the ancient monuments of Roman
Britain. She explores the land that was
once Rome’s northernmost territory and
how it has changed since the years after the
empire fell. Under Another Sky invites us to
see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly
marked by how the Romans first imagined
and wrote, these strange and exotic islands,
perched on the edge of the known world,
into existence.
AUGUST
The piercing, heartbreaking memoir of
growing up on the crime-ridden streets of
Philadelphia and charting a new path
YOU THINK IT
STRANGE
A Memoir
DAN BURT
You think it Strange
a memoir
Dan Burt
“Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract
murder, loan sharking, political corruption . . . crimes of every sort were the daily
trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the
oldest part of town. The Kevitch family
ruled this stew for half a century, from
Prohibition to the rise of Atlantic City.
My mother was a Kevitch.”
So begins poet Dan Burt’s moving,
emotional memoir of life on the dangerous streets of downtown Philadelphia. The
son of a butcher and an heiress to an organized crime empire, Burt rejected the
harsh world of his upbringing, eventually
renouncing his home country as well and
forging a new life in the UK. But in this
riveting reappraisal of his childhood, Burt
wrestles with the idea that home leaves an
indelible mark that can never truly be left
behind.
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DAN BURT is a writer whose
poetry and prose have appeared
in PN Review, the TLS, the
Financial Times, and the New
Statesman, among others. He
splits his time between Maine,
London, and St. John’s College,
Cambridge, of which he is an
Honorary Fellow.
978-1-4683-1125-9
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AUGUST
The spellbinding conclusion to the
Jimmy Nessheim trilogy, by the author
of Fear Itself
THE ACCIDENTAL
AGENT
THE
A Jimmy Nessheim Novel
A Jimmy Nessheim Novel
ANDREW ROSENHEIM
ANDREW
AGENT
ACCIDENTAL
ROSENHEIM
author of Fear Itself
“A stirring successor to Frederick Forsyth.”
—INDEPENDENT
Praise for The Little Tokyo
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978-1-4683-0935-5
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“Compelling, intelligent
entertainment.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Rosenheim is even better this
time out.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Rosenheim’s characters are
sharply defined and exhibit
the mannerisms and language
of the early 1940s.”
—Mystery Scene
ANDREW ROSENHEIM grew up in
Chicago and in a small town in
Michigan. He went to Oxford as
a Rhodes Scholar in 1977 and
has lived in England ever since.
For many years he worked in
publishing, at Oxford University
Press and Penguin Books
among others, and is now a
full-time writer.
OVERLOOK
In the gripping third book of the critically
acclaimed Jimmy Nessheim series, the
fate of America’s critical nuclear program,
and the outcome of World War II itself, is
at stake.
It’s the fall of 1942 and Special Agent
Jimmy Nessheim is a student again, even
though America is at war. On extended
leave from the FBI, he’s enrolled in law
school at the University of Chicago.
Ostensibly a full-time student, Nessheim
has also been assigned to assist the military security guarding a scientific program
called the Manhattan Project. In Chicago,
its work takes place underneath the stands
of Stagg Field, the university’s unused
football stadium. Drawn once again into
a web of international intrigue, Nessheim
faces his most deadly threat yet.
AUGUST
The ultimate profile of the legendary pop
culture titan
KANYE WEST
God and Monster
MARK BEAUMONT
OverlOOk
Kanye West is undoubtedly one of pop culture’s most divisive and fascinating characters. Alongside his multimillion selling
albums, Kanye has also launched record
labels and clothing lines and in the process,
become one of the most respected, creative
and influential artists in music today.
The most in-depth look at West’s life
and career to date, Mark Beaumont’s new
book lifts the mask to expose the man behind the endless myths. Featuring quotes
from all of the major players in West’s life,
Kanye West: God and Monster traces his life
from the suburbs of Chicago through art
school and rap apprenticeships to recording in the coolest studios of New York and
Hawaii with the biggest names in music, revolutionizing hip-hop at every step
of the way. Beaumont documents every
rumor and revelation, details the wildest
extravagances and biggest ego blow-ups of
this true rap original.
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MARK BEAUMONT is a leading
award-winning music journalist
and has written for NME, The
Guardian, Uncut and Classic
Rock. He is the author of the
bestseller Out of This World:
The Story of Muse and Jay
Z: The King of America, both
published by Omnibus Press.
He lives in London.
OVERLOOK
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6 x 9 352 pp.
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AUGUST
The Wodehouse collection continues with
more sparkling classics from the master of
hijinks and social comedy
THE PRINCE AND
BETTY
P. G. WODEHOUSE
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“To open almost any of
Wodehouse’s books is to open
a door into endless summer.”
—Michael Dirda, The Wall
Street Journal
“Wodehouse's idyllic world can
never stale. He will continue
to release future generations
from captivity that may be
more irksome than our own.”
—Evelyn Waugh
OVERLOOK
Louder and Funnier
978-1-4683-1131-0
$19.95 (NCR) 160 pp.
The Prince and Betty
978-1-4683-1132-7
$19.95 (NCR) 160 pp.
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P. G. WODEHOUSE (1881–1975)
spent much of his life in
Southampton, New York, but
was born in England and
educated in Surrey. He became
an American citizen in 1955. In
a literary career spanning more
than seventy years, he published
more than ninety books and
twenty film scripts, and
collaborated on more than thirty
plays and musical comedies.
Photo courtesy of the estate of the author
LOUDER AND
FUNNIER
P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the
greatest English comic writers of the twentieth century, rightly admired throughout
the world and translated into more than
thirty languages. Launched on the twentyfifth anniversary of his death, this series
presents each Overlook Wodehouse as
the finest edition of the master’s work
ever published—beautifully designed and
faithful to the original.
This season, Overlook is pleased to
offer the latest two hilarious volumes.
Louder and Funnier is a collection of
articles written for Vanity Fair, with subjects ranging from Shakespeare and divorce to income tax and ocean liners. The
Prince and Betty is an engrossing, hilarious story of an unscrupulous millionaire
and his plans to build a casino in the
Mediterranean. Revised by Wodehouse after the initial publication, it features the
master’s signature reflections on the rich in
one of his classic novels.
Praise for The Collector’s Wodehouse series from Overlook
“Handsome, affordable hardcover editions . . . Wodehouse is an anodyne to
annoyances. He’s a tonic for those suffering from bearable but burdensome
loads of boredom, from jadedness of outlook and dinginess of soul.”
—The New Yorker
“Could a P. G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is
reissuing Wodehouse’s comic novels, clearly has its finger on America’s pulse.
. . . With its sumptuously bound editions, Overlook Press has done the master
proud.” —Los Angeles Times
“Wodehouse’s novels are the very definition of British humor—bubblingly witty
and dryly loony. And as Overlook continues its reissue of these absurd souffles,
you can buy the work for yourself in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets
as natty as the prose.” —Entertainment Weekly
“The volumes of the Collector’s Wodehouse are fine indeed. . . . I am hardpressed to think of a recent publishing project as ambitious and successful as
this one.” —The Washington Post
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THE DEFINITIVE
“Could a P. G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is reissuing Wodehouse’s
comic novels, clearly has its finger on America’s pulse. . . . With its sumptuously bound
editions, Overlook Press has done the master proud.” —Los Angeles Times
P. G. Wodehouse titles from The Overlook Press
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The Little Nugget
978-1-58567-745-0 $19.95
Much Obliged, Jeeves
978-1-58567-526-5 $19.95
Blandings Castle
978-1-58567-338-4 $19.95
Very Good, Jeeves!
978-1-58567-746-7 $19.95
Uncle Fred In the Springtime
978-1-58567-527-2 $19.95
Joy in the Morning
978-1-58567-276-9 $19.95
Do Butlers Burgle Banks?
978-1-58567-747-4 $19.95
Summer Lightning
978-1-58567-477-0 $19.95
Meet Mr. Mulliner
978-1-58567-275-2 $19.95
The Coming of Bill
978-1-58567-744-3 $19.95
Psmith in the City
978-1-58567-478-7 $19.95
The Clicking of Cuthbert
978-1-58567-278-3 $19.95
Full Moon
978-1-58567-836-5 $19.95
Ukridge
978-1-58567-479-4 $19.95
Lord Emsworth and Others
978-1-58567-277-6 $19.95
The Heart of a Goof
978-1-58567-837-2 $19.95
A Damsel in Distress
978-1-58567-430-5 $19.95
Jeeves and the Feudal Spirit
978-1-58567-229-5 $19.95
Money in the Bank
978-1-58567-657-6 $19.95
Leave It to Psmith
978-1-58567-432-9 $19.95
Heavy Weather
978-1-58567-230-1 $19.95
Something Fresh
978-1-58567-658-3 $19.95
Mulliner Nights
978-1-58567-433-6 $19.95
The Mating Season
978-1-58567-231-8 $19.95
Mr. Mulliner Speaking
978-1-58567-659-0 $19.95
Thank You, Jeeves
978-1-58567-434-3 $19.95
Laughing Gas
978-1-58567-232-5 $19.95
Jill the Reckless
978-1-58567-660-6 $19.95
Hot Water
978-1-58567-389-6 $19.95
The Code of the Woosters
978-1-58567-057-4 $19.95
Uneasy Money
978-1-58567-572-2 $19.95
Summer Moonshine
978-1-58567-390-2 $19.95
Right Ho, Jeeves
978-1-58567-058-1 $19.95
Piccadilly Jim
978-1-58567-616-3 $19.95
A Gentleman of Leisure
978-1-58567-391-9 $19.95
Pigs Have Wings
978-1-58567-059-8 $19.95
Cocktail Time
978-1-58567-574-6 $19.95
Carry On, Jeeves
978-1-58567-392-6 $19.95
The Inimitable Jeeves
978-1-58567-922-5 $19.95
Spring Fever
978-1-58567-575-3 $19.95
Jeeves in the Offing
978-1-58567-325-4 $19.95
Money for Nothing
978-1-58567-923-2 $19.95
Quick Service
978-1-58567-523-4 $19.95
The Luck of the Bodkins
978-1-58567-336-0 $19.95
Sam the Sudden
978-1-58567-977-5 $19.95
Ring for Jeeves
978-1-58567-524-1 $19.95
Young Men in Spats
978-1-58567-337-7 $19.95
Big Money
978-1-58567-978-2 $19.95
P. G. WODEHOUSE
“The volumes of the Collector’s Wodehouse are fine indeed. . . . I am hard-pressed to think of
a recent publishing project as ambitious and successful as this one.” —The Washington Post
P. G. Wodehouse titles from The Overlook Press
My Man Jeeves
978-1-58567-875-4 $19.95
The Pothunters
978-1-59020-347-7 $19.95
The Head of Kay’s
978-1-46830-052-9 $19.95
Uncle Dynamite
978-1-58567-874-7 $19.95
Service With a Smile
978-1-59020-346-0 $19.95
Company for Henry
978-1-59020-053-6 $19.95
The Girl on the Boat
978-1-59020-009-4 $19.95
A Pelican at Blandings
978-1-59020-413-9 $19.95
Mike and Psmith
978-1-46830-0274-5 $19.95
Plum Pie
978-1-59020-010-0 $19.95
A Prefect’s Uncle
978-1-59020-414-6 $19.95
Pearls, Girls, and Monty Bodkin
978-1-4683-0275-2 $19.95
Bill the Conqueror
978-1-59020-067-4 $19.95
Eggs, Beans and Crumpets
978-1-59020-411-5 $19.95
If I Were You
978-1-4683-0696-5 $19.95
Something Fishy
978-1-59020-068-1 $19.95
The Girl in Blue
978-1-59020-472-6 $19.95
The Small Bachelor
978-1-4683-0697-2 $19.95
Psmith, Journalist
978-1-59020-105-3 $19.95
The Man Upstairs
978-1-59020-471-9 $19.95
The White Feather
978-1-4683-0663-7 $19.95
Nothing Serious
978-1-59020-106-0 $19.95
The Gold Boat
978-1-59010-513-6 $19.95
French Leave
978-1-4683-0664-4 $19.95
Aunts Aren’t Gentlemen
978-1-59020-165-7 $19.95
Ice in the Bedroom
978-1-59010-512-9 $19.95
Doctor Sally
978-1-59020-166-4 $19.95
Love Among the Chickens
978-1-59010-678-2 $19.95
Kid Brady Stories and
A Man of Means
978-1-4683-0833-4 $19.95
Galahad at Blandings
978-1-59020-232-6 $19.95
The Old Republic
978-1-59010-679-9 $19.95
A Few Quick Ones
978-1-59020-233-3 $19.95
Adventures of Sally
978-1-59010-755-0 $19.95
Barmy in Wonderland
978-1-59020-240-1 $19.95
Mike at Wrykyn
978-1-59010-756-7 $19.95
The Man with Two Left Feet
978-1-59020-241-8 $19.95
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
978-1-59020-869-4 $19.95
The Indiscretions of Archie
978-1-59020-305-7 $19.95
Bachelors Anonymous
978-1-59020-857-1 $19.95
Frozen Assets
978-1-59020-306-4 $19.95
Tales of St. Austin’s
978-1-59020-858-8 $19.95
The Swoop! and
The Military Invasion of America
978-1-4683-0834-1 $19.95
OVERLOOK
Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere
978-1-4683-0896-9 $19.95
Performing Flea
978-1-4683-0897-6 $19.95
Not George Washington
978-1-4683-0968-3 $19.95
Bring on the Girls!
978-1-4683-0974-4 $19.95
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